Panama Papers explainer: where does Australia fit into the offshore tax scandal?
It’s not illegal for Australians to set up shell companies – but it can be an offence to fail to disclose assets to the tax officeMost Australians have probably never heard of Mossack Fonseca, but...
View ArticleBHP-owned companies triggered 'high risk' alert at Panama law firm
Mossack Fonseca flagged concerns about two of mining giant’s companies in British Virgin Islands because ‘authorised capital is higher than the norm’The Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton...
View ArticleHow a Hong Kong corruption scandal sparked strife at Mossack Fonseca
Law firm debated whether to report Asia’s largest property developer to financial crime authorities in the British Virgin Islands, Panama Papers revealThe arrest of an executive at the centre of a...
View ArticleUK tax officials seek access to huge leak of Mossack Fonseca papers
HMRC letter to Guardian follows confirmation by Australian and New Zealand tax authorities that firm’s clients are being investigatedGlobal reaction to Panama Papers leakUK tax investigators have...
View ArticleTax havens don’t need to be reformed. They should be outlawed | Richard Brooks
The Panama Papers demonstrate that for all the fine words about transparency on tax, the world’s kleptocrats are still getting away with it • Global reaction to Panama Papers leak - live• The $2bn...
View ArticleBritish Virgin Islands failed to crack down on Mossack Fonseca
Island officials licensed law firm at centre of Panama Papers leak although it repeatedly could not fulfil legal obligation to name companies’ real owners• Panama Papers: global reaction to leakThe...
View ArticleSanctions: key questions answered
What are they, how do they work and what do they mean to companies administering offshore firmsThere is evidence in the Panama Papers that at least 22 individuals placed on sanctions blacklists by the...
View ArticleUK could impose direct rule on tax havens, says Jeremy Corbyn
Labour leader says Cameron family’s affairs should be part of inquiry into offshore tax avoidance amid Panama Papers scandalThe government should consider imposing direct orders on British overseas...
View ArticleFive things Britain could do now to clean up tax havens
Jeremy Corbyn has suggested direct rule over the British Virgin Islands and other UK secrecy jurisdictions. But this is just one of David Cameron’s optionsLive reaction to the Panama PapersFrom June,...
View ArticlePanama Papers: Iceland president blocks PM's snap election call
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson embroiled in row over family’s tax affairs after leaked documents reveal offshore companyIceland’s president has refused a request from the country’s embattled prime...
View ArticleWelsh economy loses out to the British Virgin Islands | Letters
Dominic Grieve seems extraordinarily perplexed about the economy and people of the British Virgin Islands (David Cameron must come clean on tax, says Jeremy Corbyn, theguardian.com, 5 April). What...
View ArticleMossack Fonseca worked with oil firms owned by Iranian state despite sanctions
Documents show law firm at centre of Panama Papers leak carried on doing business with companies after learning of their real ownersPanama Papers: all the revelations so farThe law firm at the centre...
View ArticleMaking money is not a vice, but refusing to contribute tax is
Being a tax dodger is antisocial. That tight friend who never buys a drink but earns more than you – that’s who’s running the country right nowThat global elite – I always suspected they were up to no...
View ArticleNo 10 tight-lipped as queries persist over offshore fund of Ian Cameron
PM’s statements about Blairmore trust fail to quell furore as revelations in Panama Papers leak further implicate Uefa, China’s elite, Iceland, Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif and Ukraine’s Petro...
View ArticleIcelandic government appoints new PM and rejects calls to resign
Coalition to hold autumn elections as Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson is named successor to Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson following Panama Papers revelationsIceland’s crisis-hit coalition government has...
View ArticleEnd UK's role as safe haven for the corrupt, Transparency urges
Anti-graft group calls for UK register of real owners of crown dependency and overseas territory firms after Panama Papers leaks The UK must no longer be a safe haven for the corrupt, an anti-graft...
View ArticleFormer HSBC boss tried to avoid tax on £8m Kensington house
Panama Papers show Michael Geoghegan, a leading Brexit campaigner, has used offshore firms to manage his wealthThe leading Brexit campaigner Michael Geoghegan is not resident in the UK for tax...
View ArticleVince Cable: Cameron 'got cold feet' on tax avoidance crackdown
Former Lib Dem business secretary who led corporate transparency proposal says PM rowed back when faced with tax havens’ oppositionCameron admits he profited from father’s offshore fundPM stepped in to...
View ArticleForget the Camerons, the African giveaway is the real Panama Papers story
Offshore accounts have helped people get rich off the continent’s natural resources – just not ordinary citizensRevelations about the tax affairs of David Cameron’s late father are a sideshow in the...
View ArticleUN urges countries to stem tide of firms profit-shifting to tax havens
Unctad thinktank shows firms funnelled $221bn in 2015 through low-tax jurisdictions such as the Netherlands and tax havens in the CaribbeanThe UN has urged governments to stem the flow of funds to tax...
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